In '12, the Rockets made a six-man trade to get Harden, who were the other five? How is it developing

Kukukan Sports

2024-05-11 08:19Published in Shanghai

When it comes to the NBA, domestic fans will inevitably think of the Rockets, because it drafted Yao Ming in 2002. Through Yao Ming, the owner of Team Rocket has made a lot of money from the Chinese market, and he doesn't know how much wealth he has accumulated, which can be described as the most correct choice. In addition to selecting Yao Ming in 2002, the most correct decision the Rockets made in the new century was to trade James Harden from the Thunder in 2012 through a six-man trade.

As for why, because the arrival of Harden has made the Rockets team that lost Yao Ming and Maddy competitive again, allowing them to continue to win the love of fans, thus helping the Rockets owner accumulate more wealth. Today, the author will take you to take a look at the six-man trade that got Harden in that transaction, who the other five players were, and how the development was after that.

Players sent by the Rockets:

1. Kevin Martin

Kevin Martin, a shooting guard selected by the Sacramento Kings with the 26th pick in the first round of the 2004 NBA Draft, is known for his strange but accurate shooting posture, averaging 20.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game in the third year of his career.

After six years with the Kings without much success, he came to the Rockets in his prime, averaging 23.4 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game. Unfortunately, due to injuries, Martin was only able to play 40 games in the 11-12 season, and his form also slipped to 17.1 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists. In search of a change, the Rockets sent him to the Thunder as a major bargaining chip in exchange for last year's sixth man of the year, James Harden. When it comes to the Thunder, Martin is exactly the same role as James Harden before, acting as the team's sixth man, averaging 14 points and 2.3 rebounds per game, and there is no change in the playoffs, still averaging 14 points per game. However, Martin is not as playmaker as Harden, so the Thunder team that lost Harden fell in the second round of the playoffs, more than a star and a half away from last year's championship. And at the end of the season, Martin left the Thunder and joined the Timberwolves as a free agent, where he regained his form, averaging 20 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, but due to injury problems, Martin's form declined rapidly, and he finally retired from the Spurs in November 2016.

2. Jeremy Lamb

Jeremy Lamb, a potential guard selected by the Houston Rockets with the 12th pick in the first round of the 2012 NBA Draft, went to the Thunder without playing a single game for the Rockets as a bargaining chip for James Harden. In the Thunder, due to the main players Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant dominating the players, and the bench with Kevin Martin and other bench gangsters to control the ball, Lamb did not have the opportunity to practice at all in the Thunder, and averaged less than 20 minutes per game in the three seasons of his rookie season, and could only average 8.5 points and 2.4 rebounds per game at most. In his fourth year as a rookie, the Thunder sent Lamb to the Hornets. There, Lamb got the opportunity he wanted, playing the pinnacle of his career in the 18-19 season, averaging 15.3 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. In the years that followed, Lamb was unable to play many more games due to injuries and eventually retired from the NBA for all in August 2022

3. One second-round pick and two first-round picks (Steven Adams, Alex Afrines, Mitch McGarry)

In addition to the above two players, the Rockets also gave the Thunder two first-round picks and one second-round pick in order to get Harden, namely the 2013 Raptors first-round pick, the 2013 Mavericks' first-round pick and the 2013 Bobcats' second-round pick. However, these three draft picks seem to be valuable, and in fact, they have some value in terms of the Raptors' 13-year first-round picks, after all, the other two picks are too late to pick any good players. So the Thunder used these three picks to draft Steven Adams, Alex Afrines and Mitch McGarry, respectively. Of those three players, with the exception of Steven Adams, the other two were all players who were waived before they had enough rookie contracts.

Steven Adams, who has been with the Thunder for seven years since he was drafted in 2013, has not won any specific honors in seven years, but his nearly double-double data of 13.8 points and 9.5 rebounds per game at his peak is enough to show that he is a super main center player. Now, Adams coincidentally went to the Rockets, where he taught them as a mentor to a group of newcomers, and worked with them to prepare for the playoffs again.

In addition to James Harden, the Thunder sent players:

1. Cole Aldridge

Cole Aldridge, the No. 11 pick in the 2010 NBA Draft, was drafted by the New Orleans Hornets and then traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder to start his NBA career, and spent two years with the Thunder with no playing opportunities at all, averaging only 2 points and 1.8 rebounds per game. After coming to the Rockets as a trade additive, he also didn't have much chance to play, and he still could only play an average of 7.1 minutes per game, scoring 1.7 points and 1.9 rebounds, so there was no surprise that he was traded again. In this way, Aldridge, who did not have many opportunities to perform, changed 6 teams in his 8-year career, and averaged only 5.5 points and 4.8 rebounds per game in the peak season of his career.

2. Daquin Cook

Daequine Cook, who was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers with the 21st pick in the first round of the 2007 NBA Draft, started his career with the Heat in a trade. Like Kerr Aldridge, Daquien Cook is also a bench player, averaging only 9.1 points and 2.5 rebounds per game in the peak season of his career, and only 5.5 points and 2.1 rebounds per game in the season he was traded by the Thunder. Therefore, after going to the Rockets, he was not taken seriously, and he faded out of the league after two years.

3. Lazar Hayward

Lazar Hayward, the No. 30 pick in the 2010 NBA Draft, was drafted by the Washington Wizards and sent to the Minnesota Timberwolves to start his NBA career. Compared to the above two bench players, Hayward is a heavyweight, his NBA career is a total of two years, except for the first year with the Timberwolves and the second year with the Thunder, after being traded by the Thunder to the Rockets, he has not been heard from.

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